I think comedy has a range, with multiple peaks in different areas. It’s like trying to compare Beethoven and the Beatles. Sometimes I hear from people, ‘I think you try too hard in your comedy.’ And that’s what I worry about.
BO BURNHAMBecause I see that as a crutch sometimes and I want to know that I can do something funny and worthwhile without that. And also make a show that my parents would like and that kids could watch with their parents.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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I’m gay for Jesus, fill me with your grace. Pour your love all over me, but please aim away from my face.
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Do you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
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My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that’s a lovely addition.
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I don’t need anything as long as I have my family, friends, millions of dollars, unlimited pussy.
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I never felt like I was stealing anyone’s fans as much as I was introducing some younger people to comedy who will eventually find tons of other comedians that they love.
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At the time of ‘Words, Words, Words,’ I’m a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he’s entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that’s inherently a little bit ridiculous.
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It’s not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can on stage.
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I got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.
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For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.
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I remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, ‘Man, I wonder what famous people eat for breakfast.
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I’m interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they’re scary, and they’re important to think about.
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I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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We’re having a traditional Thanksgiving – turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc.
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I love you just the way you are but you don’t see you like I do. You shouldn’t try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you.
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